The UX-MACHINE: Emotion Sensor Data Analysis Plattform

Gathering and interpreting usability data from distributed sensor networks is a rather challenging task. The tool is capable for recording, archiving, analysing, and interpreting sensor data from User eXperience (UX) experiments and is freely available to the community. Take your smart city, urban informatics, smart living, audience research project to the next level with The UX-Machine.

The UX Machine – A FREELY AVAILABLE SOFTWARE FOR USABILITY TESTING.Gathering and the interpretation of usability data is a rather challenging task. We implemented a new tool for recording, archiving, and interpreting sensor data from user-experience (UX) experiments. The tool is capable of handling any type of sensor data. The current version of the tool named “The LudoViCo UX Machine”is contributed as freely available tool to the UX community. It shall assist user experience designers in managing their experimental data. The current version is capable of handling medical and biofeedback data, which can be archived, analyzed, and visualized. Future implementations will include generic sensor data via a plug-in concept, and provide data-analysis capability to get deeper insights into gathered data. The tool shall contribute with a new technology to support the interaction design process across applications: smart cities, smart living, smart interaction, urban informatics, health, sustainable living, audience response, or biofeedback.

Extendible Platform: A plug-in concept and a light-weight sensor data protocol allows high extendible of the platform, add new sensor types, additional features, new analysis techniques, and new functionality.

Functionality

Plug-in based concept to enable any type of sensors beyond the use as suggested within the scope of this paper;

General purpose platform for experiments in other contexts, as e.g. smart cities, smart cars, or wearables;

Contact & Information

The software will be released in mid-2016. Please subscribe to the email list to get further information. If you have any requests for additional functionality, please let us know as well! If you would like to contact the author of the software, please send an email to: